Aptavani-6 93
when you have such awareness( laksha), then You will not have to do anything. Nothing needs to be done once Self-realization has been attained. Gnan remains in Gnan; ignorance does not creep in. The Self remains as the gnayak. Gnayak means to remain continuously as the‘ knower.’ No other phase arises for the Self in this state as the gnayak.
Questioner: The term‘ to know’( janavoo) – does it mean to know the mind or to know the sensation and feelings from the body?
Dadashri: You have to‘ know’ everything. You have to know the thoughts in the mind, what the intellect( buddhi) is doing; you have to know all the circumstances( sainyog) that arise within. Can you not know the circumstances that arise within? A thought will come and then go. That is a circumstance( sainyog). Whatever comes and then leaves is considered a circumstance. And the‘ seer’ of these circumstances, the one who does not come or go, the one who remains forever, is the knower, the gnayak. The knower keeps seeing the circumstances that come and go. That is the attribute of the Self and circumstances are, by nature, temporary and prone to dissipation( viyog). Therefore, they will leave even if you ask them to stay.
When you were in human nature( maanav swabhav), whenever a thought came, you used to remain engrossed( tanmayakar – to become one with the mind and body) with,‘ I am having a thought.’ Now You do not become tanmayakar. He( Chandulal) remains separate because human nature is subject to input and output( paudgalik) in nature. And now this is the nature of the Self( Atma swabhav). Atma swabhav is permanent and the other is temporary, which will come and then leave.‘ You’ have to simply keep‘ seeing’ it.
Questioner: What if there was no circumstance at all?
Dadashri: The Self would not be there if there was no circumstance.